"We are motivated by a keen desire..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.”

“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.”

“In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.”

“Usually we praise only to be praised.”

“The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.”

“Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.”

“But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?”

“You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.”

“How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.”